Library of Congress Report

toCommittee on Technical

Processing CEAL

Young Ki Lee

Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division

Library of Congress

Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2006 Statistical Highlights

• Received : 55,146 items – increased 8%

• Completed : 55,859 items– increased 6%

• Copy cataloging : 15,936 items– increased 62%

• Minimum level cataloging : 2,973 items – increased 31%

• Collection level cataloging : 623 items– increased 106%

Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2006 Statistical Highlights, continued

New Name Authorities: 12,258– increased 3%

New Series Authorities: 1,278– decreased 29%

Modified Authorities: 5,962– decreased 4%

Production of regular work : 0.46 t/h– increased 31%

Staff : 75– decreased 11%

Cataloging Policy and Support Office2006 Highlights

Newly re-designed Web site for ABA was launched on Jan. 4, 2007 (includes CPSO)

: www.loc.gov/aba/

Cataloging Policy and Support Office2006 Highlights, continued

Non-roman data in Authority records Discussing with NACO nodes Targeting Jan. 2008 to begin

Example of Non-roman data Here

Cataloging Policy and Support Office2006 Highlights, continued

Project to add Chinese characters to class BQ to the names of individual authors listed in

PL2661-2979

Example here

Cataloging Policy and Support Office2006 Highlights, continued

Additional history period subdivisions will be proposed for– Burma

– Cambodia

– Indonesia

– Laos

– Thailand

Cataloging Policy and Support Office2006 Highlights, continued

New 2007 Printed Edition of Class H (Social Sciences) published by CDS

New automated system for submitting classification proposals and producing the LC Classification Weekly Lists implemented on Nov. 13, 2006

Cataloging Policy and Support Office2006 Highlights, continued

Database Improvement Unit – 875,000 records updated

– 1,000 NARs added death date of individual

The Spacing in CJK Script Fields(with attention to Korean)

• OCLC’s No Spacing Policy for all CJK records

• RLG’s Announcement to strip out the spaces between CJK characters, beginning in March 2007– LC has been studying the implications of the plan

– LC tested 3 types of searches: Keyword, left-anchored, and heading

– LC believes the impact for Chinese and Japanese is minimal, but removal of spaces has significant implications for searching Korean

The Spacing in CJK Script Fields(with attention to Korean)

• The National Library of Korea and others conformed their practice to include spaces in modern Korean words

• LC’s recommendation to continue to provide spaces for Korean words

• OCLC’s announcement in early March to retain the spaces for any field containing Korean characters when they load RLIN records

Future site of JACKPHY Cataloging at LC

• Review LC’s JACKPHY cataloging operations in light of the OCLC/RLG merger

• Testing efforts initiated to assess the non-roman script input/update capabilities of Voyager w/Unicode and OCLC Connexion

• Voyager and Connexion workflows and record management to be compared and evaluated in the next several months

Bibliographic Data from Vendors

• China National Publishing Industry Trading Corporation (CNPITC)– Initial Bibliographic Control (IBC) records for

some Chinese materials

Bibliographic Data from VendorsContinued

• Kinokuniya– complete bibliographic data and item barcode

labels for 250 Japanese material for LC’s Review

Bibliographic Data from VendorsContinued

• Eulyoo Publishing Company– IBC records for all of the Korean monographs– LC will begin receiving bibliographic data from

Eulyoo in the near future

Chinese Team

• Arrearage reduction special project– Staff from the Cataloging and Acquisitions reduced

unprocessed Chinese materials from 26,343 titles to 8,367

• Book Sorter Program – David Williamson developed– Efficiently identify and process duplicates

• Used level 7 copy cataloging on older materials

Japanese Team

• The final edition of the Descriptive cataloging guideline for pre-Meiji Japanese rare books was completed and made available on the home page of the CEAL

• Isamu Tsuchitani, Manae Fujishiro, and Hisako Rogerson made important contributions to the compilation of the guidelines

Korean Team• Revision of the Korean romanization and

word division guidelines

• Processing the old Korean religious rare materials that were published between late 1880s and early 1900s

• LC Digital Table of Contents Project started to include Korean materials saved as PDF files and linked to the Bibliographic records

Reorganization of ABA Directorate (Plan)

Goals

The Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate reorganization will streamline

operations and redeploy increasingly scarce resources to improve services for connecting library users to content through an efficient,

flexible, and innovative organization.

Reorganization of ABA Directorate (Proposed)

African and Asian Division(Proposed)

•Angela Kinney, Chief

•Africa Section : Section Head Molnar, Joseph•China Section 1: Section Head Ohta, Beatrice•China Section 2: Section Head Broadbent, John•Israel / Judaica Section: Section Head Bell, Lenore•Middle East Section: Section Head Ozturk, Sarah•Northeast Asia Section: Section Head Melzer, Philip•Southeast Asia / South Asia Section:

Section Head Pritchett, Helen

Thank You